It’s been cold here this month. We had made it until January without the temperatures dropping much below 40 degrees, but are now in the middle of a stretch of cold, gray days. It even snowed last weekend! The hardest part for me isn’t the rain, the snow or the cold, it is that the sun doesn’t rise until well after 8 am for much of the winter. I thought I would share a few pictures I took over the summer on a walk through the Jardin des Plantes as a reminder that things won’t always be so cold and gray here in Paris.
The Jardin des Plantes is a botanical garden in the 5th arrondissement that was established in 1626 as a royal medicinal herb garden by Louis XIII’s personal physicians. It was opened to the public in 1640 and was expanded in the 18th century under the direction of Louis Leclerc, a French naturalist.
Today the grounds of the Jardin des Plantes house a zoo, several museums, and a number of gardens including the gardens of the École de Botanique (Botany School), a rose garden, an alpine garden, and a winter garden in an Art Deco greenhouse. Like on the Coulée Verte, the flowers blooming in the Jardin des Plantes change throughout the seasons so there is always something new to see.
Alpine garden:
Rose garden:
Winter garden:
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